Immortality Starts With Investment

”Ye Chen, you still claim you’re not the Heavenly Emperor’s heir!”

At this moment, Celestial Prince’s roar even carried a slight tremor.

The long blade flowed with blood-colored light, yet beneath that glow it shone like pure snow, flawless and pristine. It was forged primarily from five types of immortal metal, supplemented by various divine materials.

At the junction between the blade and the hilt, there was a faint immortal bell imprint. All of this confirmed to Celestial Prince that this was his father’s immortal artifact—the Undying Celestial Blade.

The Undying Celestial Blade had shattered once during a great battle in the past. His father had taken an enemy’s immortal artifact, reforged it, and fused it into the blade to repair it, leaving behind that extra trace of the immortal bell imprint.

Not long after Celestial Prince entered slumber, the Heavenly Emperor achieved true immortality. His father fought him and fell in that battle. The Undying Celestial Blade had vanished without a trace ever since.

Staring at the blade now, grief flickered in Celestial Prince’s eyes, but far more prominent was fear. The Undying Celestial Blade was renowned as the strongest offensive immortal artifact. In his father’s hands, it had been stained with the blood of countless immortals.

The Heavenly Emperor’s heir was already terrifyingly powerful on his own. Now that he wielded the Undying Celestial Blade, could the Celestial Prince’s immortal tower still hold?

”Heavenly Emperor’s heir, you’ve gone too far. Do you truly intend to fight to the death?”

Endless regret surged within the Celestial Prince’s heart. Back then, he had been unwilling to start over, unwilling to take risks, unwilling to endure hardship. He also knew that his status as Celestial Prince would be worthless in the immortal realm. So he had rejected his father’s proposal to bring him into the immortal world.

Instead, he chose to slumber for a million years and take a safer path. He had even been willing to let his beloved leave him. But looking back now, he had clearly made the wrong choice! This era after a million years was far more competitive than his own time.

Ye Chen raised his eyes and glanced at the Celestial Prince, too lazy to speak. This person no longer merely lacked an invincible will—his heart for seeking the Dao was not firm, and his temperament was unstable. He was less cautious than Alkaid and less courageous than the Lotus Emperor. No matter how high his talent, he would never reach the peak.

Therefore, Ye Chen did not waste any more words. He simply lowered his head and activated the Armament Secret.

Terrifying immortal artifact pressure instantly erupted, suppressing the heavens. Killing intent swept across the four directions.

The distant onlookers were almost all quasi-immortals. Yet merely being brushed by the killing aura left them covered in wounds, their hearts filled with terror.

The Undying Celestial Blade was actually in the hands of the Heavenly Emperor’s heir. Who had left it behind needed no explanation.

Yet he still stubbornly insisted he was not the Heavenly Emperor’s heir, clearly to make way for that Chaos Body female cultivator. The Heavenly Emperor’s heir truly loved women to the point of obsession, willing to give away anything.

Still, no one dwelled on the matter for long. After all, everyone had known since his Qi Refining cultivator days that the Heavenly Emperor’s heir was fond of women. This was hardly new information. What they cared about more was the scene that was about to unfold.

No one doubted the outcome anymore. Celestial Prince was destined to die. After all, even without using an immortal artifact, the Heavenly Emperor’s heir had already been suppressing them. Now that he had brought out the immortal artifact, the result was set in stone.

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The crowd was simply curious about one thing: how many strikes could the Celestial Prince’s immortal artifact withstand?

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Celestial Prince was clearly thinking the same thing. After his father’s Undying Celestial Blade appeared, he no longer held any confidence that he could survive. At this moment, he only wanted to escape.

Seeing that the Undying Celestial Blade was still awakening, Celestial Prince did not hesitate for even a second. He transformed into his true form with a boom.

Unlike the true form of ordinary Undying Heavenly Phoenixes, Celestial Prince’s true form bathed in infinite divine fire, as if he had already become the legendary immortal bird.

With the immortal tower above his head, he fled backward at extreme speed. He wanted to put as much distance as possible between them before Ye Chen could swing the first blade.

As long as he could create enough distance and block the first strike, he would be able to escape. In the future, he could use the Forsight Secret to shield himself from heavenly secrets and find a desolate land to self-seal for a hundred years.

As long as he dragged things out until Ye Chen left this world, he would still have a chance. At the very least, he could slaughter every last one of Ye Chen’s descendants, disciples, relatives, and friends without leaving anyone behind.

Gritting his teeth, Celestial Prince pushed his speed to the absolute limit of his life.

Ye Chen watched with a calm expression. He simply gazed at the awakening Undying Celestial Blade in his hands. Ordinary quasi-immortals could awaken an immortal artifact to ten percent of its power. Most peak quasi-immortals could reach thirty percent. Existences like Lotus Emperor and Celestial Prince could reach a maximum of fifty percent.

Ye Chen, relying on the Armament Secret, could also reach fifty percent. But one had to remember that he was still at the peak of the Great Emperor realm, not quasi-immortal. Once he achieved the quasi-immortal realm, the power would rise to ninety percent. At that time, he would truly sweep through everything.

Ye Chen gripped the hilt with both hands and slowly raised it. With just this slight movement, the surrounding space and time collapsed, and endless laws shattered inch by inch. When he lifted the blade above his head and slashed down fiercely toward the Celestial Prince, the entire world dimmed completely.

A blood-colored blade light that seemed to span countless light-years erupted. The heavens and earth in front of Ye Chen were forcibly severed into two halves.

Celestial Prince, who had already fled millions of li away with the immortal tower above his head, suddenly froze.

The immortal tower above him let out a mournful cry.

In the next instant, endless divine blood dyed the sky red.

Celestial Prince’s massive true form was abruptly split into two. Even the immortal tower itself was cut apart, its light dimming.

Ye Chen sheathed the blade and stood quietly. At this moment, the entire universe seemed to fall into dead silence.

Only the Celestial Prince’s true form was still struggling.

”I am the son of the Celestial Emperor… I possess the immortal physique and the Sacred Spirit Root…

”I have the potential to become an Immortal King!

”I still have a true phoenix fiancée waiting for me in the immortal realm…

”…”

Endless undying flames surged across his body as he tried to reconnect his severed form and resurrect.

However, the Undying Celestial Blade, stained with immortal blood, was terrifying beyond measure. Its supreme killing and destructive power rendered the Celestial Prince’s recovery force completely ineffective. The light in his two separated pupils gradually dimmed.

Scenes from the past flashed through his mind, leaving only regret. He regretted that in the final clash with the Heavenly Emperor, if he had not been afraid and had chosen to retreat instead, would everything have been different?

But in this world, there was no medicine for regret.

First defeated by the Heavenly Emperor, then defeated by the Heavenly Emperor’s heir. His entire life had been a joke!

When death was near, many things suddenly became clear.

Celestial Prince turned his head and gazed at Ye Chen. ”I have a fiancée in the immortal realm. She possesses true phoenix blood. Even if she is not yet an Immortal King, she is already close… If you ever meet her in the future, please tell her for me… that I regret not leaving with her back then.”

”…”

Celestial Prince could not finish speaking. He could no longer withstand the erosion of the Undying Celestial Blade’s residual aura.

The undying flames surged one last time before finally extinguishing. His massive corpse was scattered away. All that remained in this place was a vast and majestic origin, the immortal tower split into two, and a fire seed that seemed as if it would never go out.

Ye Chen paid no attention to the Celestial Prince’s final words.

Pass on a message? What a joke. He had killed the man with his own hands. Running over to deliver a message would be courting death!

However, Celestial Prince’s origin left Ye Chen very satisfied. It was several times stronger than that of the Exiled Immortal.

Ye Chen acknowledged the results of his million years of slumber. Besides that, the fire seed was also quite good. Perhaps he could give it to Li Feihuang to help her physique advance further.